My favorite fortuitous EEBO discovery this semester, from John - TopicsExpress



          

My favorite fortuitous EEBO discovery this semester, from John Eliots guide to French or Ortho-epia Gallica (1593). Lesson 15: The Mariner (in other words, things we say while at sea). All starts out well enough (north-northwest winds, full sun, off to Calais) but then a tempest breaks out, and the student of French is given the following choice phrases to communicate: O mes amis: O que trois & quatre fois heureux sont ceux qui sont en terre ferme plantans les Febues. [O my friends, O thrice and four times happy are those on firm ground planting beans] Bou, bou, bous, bous: paisch, bo-bo-bous: Be-be-be-bous: ho-ho-ho-zalas-helas! [???? concluding with alas] Dieu nous soit en ayde & la vierge Marie. [May God and the Virgin send us aid] Paisch, be-be-bous, bou-bou-bous, bo-bo-bous. Zalas-zalas, Hu-hu-hu-bou-bou-bous-bous-bous. [and again I say: ????] Next time I take the ferry I am trying this out.
Posted on: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 03:30:18 +0000

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